Aloha Dog & Cat Hospital

02/14/2025

Hi everyone. The winter adventures are still interrupting our schedule. Road conditions are improving and we’ll be ready to help our furry friends and their families at 11:30 today. Stay safe and see you soon.

02/13/2025

Hello Everyone, our office manager “Pokey” and his assistant to the manager “Ginger” want to inform you that due to the weather we will be closing early today,at 2:00pm. Stay Safe and Warm 😃

12/26/2024

A cat in Washington county died this week from eating a commercial raw diet from NW Naturals. Cats appear to be susceptible to bird flu, and risk include eating raw bird products (from hunting or fed) and unpasteurized milk. Please be aware of these risks and check your pet food for recall alerts.

December 24, 2024 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) Image This information is updated as events warrant.Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is a disease that is highly contagious and often deadly in poultry, caused by highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5) and A (H7) viruses; it is als...

12/24/2024

We hope everyone has a festive and safe holidays! We will be open today with limited staffing until 2pm, closed Wednesday, and open normal hours Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

11/27/2024

Our four legged office manager wants you to know we will be closed today(11/27) at 2:00pm and closed Thursday (11/28) for Thanksgiving. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving 🐶

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween! Hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday. And if your pet enjoys costumes, we’d love to see pictures of them all dressed up!

👻🎃☠️ Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat (but, don't give your pets Halloween candy)!

While it may be the scariest time of year, it doesn't have to be for your pets. Here are 7 tips to help prevent any scary situations. You can find more information at avma.org/Halloween.

10/15/2024

It’s Vet Tech Week! Please join us in celebrating our amazing technicians, who do so much to ensure the safety, health and comfort of our pets.

09/12/2024

September is Animal Pain Awareness Month. Animals suffer from pain just as people do. Acute pain is obvious and distressing. Chronic pain can be subtle, and masked as “getting old” or “slowing down.” Old age is not a disease, but pain is. If your pet shows these signs of pain, please see your veterinarian for an exam. The good news is that there are many options to treat the various causes of pain in animals, including pain medications, physical rehabilitation, acupuncture, laser therapy, and therapeutic massage.

🖼: International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management

08/12/2024

Our team had a fun outing yesterday, building signs and charcuterie boards and bonding over our art skills. So fun to get away from the clinic for some fun and laughs and walking away with some tangible memories. Thanks AR Workshop for hosting us!

07/20/2024

Salmon/trout from Northern California to British Columbia can carry a fatal infection for dogs. Read more about salmon poisoning here:

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has reported that several dogs were sickened by salmon poisoning in the Newport area. Salmon poisoning disease (fish disease) is a potentially fatal condition seen in dogs who have ingested certain types of raw fish found in the Pacific Northwest from San Francisco to the coast of Alaska. It is most prevalent from northern California to the Puget Sound. It is also seen inland along the rivers of fish migration.

Salmon, trout, and other fish such as the lamprey, sculpin, redside shiner, shad, sturgeon, candlefish and the large-scale sucker who spend their lives in coastal streams and rivers in the Pacific Northwest can be infected with the organism Neorickettsia helmonthoeca.

Symptoms To Watch For
If not treated, salmon poisoning disease is usually fatal within 2 weeks after exposure. The symptoms of salmon poisoning disease are similar to other gastrointestinal diseases such as canine parvovirus. If infected, your dog would likely show some or all of the following symptoms about 6 to 10 days after ingesting fish which were carrying the bacteria. Symptoms may be of variable severity but generally consist of:
* Fever, often greater than 104 F
* Depression
* Anorexia
* Vomiting
* Diarrhea
* Nasal or eye discharge
* Weight loss

If you know your dog has ingested raw fish and it exhibits any of the symptoms listed above, notify your veterinarian immediately. If identified in time, salmon poisoning disease is treatable. A helpful part of the diagnosis is telling your veterinarian that your dog ate raw fish, even if you only suspect that may be the case.

Prevention
* Control what your dog eats while on fishing trips.
* Leash your dog at the beach or river so that you can monitor its activities.
* Wrap garbage, especially fish entrails, and dispose in well-secured cans.
* Don't feed raw fish to your dog. Cook fish thoroughly or deep-freeze it for a minimum of 2 weeks to destroy the parasite before feeding it to your dog.

07/07/2024

We are excited to welcome Dr. Ishan Korgaonkar to our team! Dr. Korgaonkar graduated from Bombay Veterinary College, India in 2013 and finished his master's degree in Veterinary Pharmacology in 2015. He has over a decade of experience in small animal medicine and surgery in India, Mauritius, and Malawi. He is passionate about small animal surgery and shelter medicine. He excels in wound reconstructions and soft tissue surgery. Being well travelled and having veterinary experience in many walks of life, he hopes to expand his skills here at ADCH. In his free time, he loves trekking, swimming, photography, and just being outside. Dr Korgaonkar and his wife (who is also a vet!) have a crazy, nervous, sweet brindle rescue dog named Leiah and a happy and hyper rescue dog back in India named Cleo who will hopefully join them soon. Please help us welcome him at Aloha Dog and Cat!

07/04/2024

We are closed today to celebrate the 4th and will be back normal hours on Friday and Saturday. Have a safe and fun holiday!